The sire
Summertime was approved as a premium stallion in 2000. Stationed at Gestüt Hämelschenburg, he became one of the breed's most popular stallions after the outstanding quality of his first foals crops became apparent. Summertime won young horse competitions in dressage and show jumping and also finished an excellent 70 test. However, since a car accident almost 3 years ago, the stallion has not been shown anymore. Sire EH Michelangelo has been the breed's most successful mare producer for the past 4 years (based on inspection scores of his daughters). After his approval, he was sold to the Netherlands and was a bit forgotten in Germany until 1990 and his outstanding son Kennedy, who became champion of that approval. EH Michelangelo's most successful offspring in the competition world was the Danish gelding Just Mickey. With his Swedish rider, he won Team silver at the 2005 European Dressage Championships in Hagen/Germany, and also participated at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. The dam Saronga was not only a premium mare, but also an under saddle champion and qualified for the Bundeschampionat. She is a close maternal relative to the dam of Samurai II (by EH Mackensen), the reserve champion from Neumünster who ended up living in the US. Another stallion from this small private East Prussian mare family of Sophie is the top show jumper producer Sarafan. This line also produced Sarastro and a number of excellent sport horses, predominantly in eventing and show jumping.
The dam
Borgia's dam Ballerina is probably the breed's most influential mare of our time. Her first approved son Buddenbrock stamped the past years by high quality approved sons that back their genetic value with outstanding performance records (e.g.King Arthur TSF, Connery, Epernay, In Petto). Banderas is a full brother to Buddenbrock. Ballerina is also the dam of several highly successful mares: Bandera (by EH Friedensfürst), placed in the final of the Bundeschampionat and won the National Mare Champion title in Neumünster; Batida (by EH Sixtus) was an auction mare in Neumünster, and was in foal to EH Lehndorffs. The resulting foal was the best approved jumper in Neumünster 2004, premium stallion Blitz & Donner; Barracuda (by EH Friedensfürst) and Biskaja (by EH Sixtus) were the champions of their inspections. Ballerina is also the dam of stallion candidate 54 Banderas. The mare family of Blinklicht also stands for the stallions EH Benz (FEI dressage), Baluster, Belsazar (S dressage, CH), Bellheim, Bernstein (state stud Warendorf) and Doruto, the best dressage sire the Netherlands ever had (sire of multiple international champions and Olympic competitors). The origin of this branch is the family of Blitzrot by Hirtensang from the main stud Trakehnen.
